Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-01-07
MAsQUERADING.


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,~ MASQUERADING.
Waveriy Magazine. .s
II declare I am ashamed of my
sex" exclaimed Mabel Lee, as she
had been reading with an expression
ofextreme disgust on her usually merry
face.
"Why, what has your sex been do
ing?" asked her brother Walter, look
ing up in surprise from his writing
desk.
"1sp't this enough to make any
modest girl blush?" said Mabel, taking
up the paper. "Such an ADVERTISE
,nent And they are getting quite
common, too--just listen: =.
"A young lady not much over TWEEN.
ty, handsome, intelligent and noder-
ately wealthy, wishes to open CORE
spcndence with a young or middle
aged singlegentleman. Object, mutual
improvement and perhaps matri-
mony. Address Annie Laurie.'"
e'Well, what harm is there in that?"
said Walter. "Ayounglady not much
over twenty wants a. husband. No
doubt she has exhausted the means
that are usually employed to obtain
the article, and the newspaper is her
last resort. wish her success, and
think the time is not far distant when
husbands and kitchen maids will be
advertised for in the same column OF
wants." 80
I don't," said Mabel fond protest
against q woman's advertising her
heart for sale as she would her house."
II think the idea is good one"
said Walter, ''much more honest and
sensible than to plaster her yellow
face with cosmetics, pile several ounces
Of false hair over her own scanty locks
and entrap some poor fellow into
proposal, who sooner or later, finds
himself engaged to one OF these SELF
made young ladies; and for the life Of
him he cannot tell how it came
about
Few women are obliged to resort
to such measures, and even that is
not so bad, when the men are silly
enough to fall into such traps, as to
come out in glaring advertisement.
SO you see am going to make an ex-
ample of Annie Laurie, provided you
will help me-"
"What shall I do? Answer the ad-
vertisement and follow it up with a
correspondence that will end, as the
writer suggests, in matrimony?"
"Not exactly. I will answer the ad-
vertisement, pretending to be man,
OF course. You see, she is an old maid,
and no doubt her heart is pretty we'll
calloused by previous disappoint-
ments, and not likely to suffer much
from another, and when she sees her
adorer-for Twill appoint g. place to
meet her, after awhile, and give her a lec-
ture ON womans rights-and wrongs.
want you to mail the letters and be
with me at the denoucment. Won't it
be fun?" &, T.. =. F..
Walter Lee. fresh from college in
trigues, entered readily into the prac.
aljoke. and Mabel, opening her desk,
wrote, in a large, masculine hand, the
following: - =
MISS ANNIE l am a. widower Of
thirty-fve, good looking and indus
trious, with we'll furnished house.
But am very lonely since the lily of
my heart dropped into the dust My
sainted Mary Ann! How miss lser
sweet presence! And unless some 9th
or fairy form will come to fill the ach-
ing void left in my heart, it's walls will
certainly cave in with the pressure OF
grief. I believe in second love. Does
the candle flame 90 out because an
= other has been lighted from it? Then
why should the flame of love 20 out
with the light it has bestowed upon
another? ...,:.l \ :sss
The first consolation that came to
4 me in the dark hours Of my. bereave-
Inent was the thought that the golden
gates OF matrimony would again open
at my bidding The fact that / 80
( dearly loved my angel, Mary Ann, is
I. proof positive that could love with
4 equal fervor one equally worthy.
Now. my dear young lady, if you re-
Il ceive? a1lo ther answer to your adver-:
II tisenlent that impresses you more fa-
vorably than mine, you need not an
Y swer this, and will seek elsewhere for
one to heal my wounded heart. Until
4 then 4 am yours, truly, h. Y. 4 T +
sa ne ROBIN ADAIR.
This letter w III eelr.s carried eleefully.
& TO the post offce, and three days later
4 1tartled @.'R Robin Adair <who was
standing before the miro pulling at
. mass at golden brown hair, that in-
listed upon taking It's own natural
wave instead at the u fashionable
French5 one its owner was trying to
produce. Ii !. 4. s.5ss
NY dear air, here Is q letter for
"a q 90, g said Walter, holding toward
her d dinlinutive, rose col ored envel.
sppe But hadn' I you bet ter take my
4 hat md cigar case. and try to look q
more masculine? he added
nshipgly so fancy il annie Laurie
were ossee you now, she would sell
s her ma rimoniai interest Ia you for
Tue s,l not hing. Il
nia ka her ling TO add d pre-
MUM stlle price 81 nothing y Il said
S. 1abel khe tore open the stnvelope.I
ss Y IN gt.s written IN small, stiff
okinS chan ters, ~ though tho as,-
bang nest but only
ran 3 ~
= S. received ~ answer
81 tit Valued ass
III j1lI1l lIssssl II ashfull
: 81 y a